Second Language Speech Learning (Paperback)

Ratree Wayland

ISBN 10: 1108814611 / ISBN 13: 9781108814614

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2024

Beschreibung

Paperback. Including contributions from a team of world-renowned international scholars, this volume is a state-of-the-art survey of second language speech research, showcasing new empirical studies alongside critical reviews of existing influential speech learning models. It presents a revised version of Flege's Speech Learning Model (SLM-r) for the first time, an update on a cornerstone of second language research. Chapters are grouped into five thematic areas: theoretical progress, segmental acquisition, acquiring suprasegmental features, accentedness and acoustic features, and cognitive and psychological variables. Every chapter provides new empirical evidence, offering new insights as well as challenges on aspects of the second language speech acquisition process. Comprehensive in its coverage, this book summarises the state of current research in second language phonology, and aims to shape and inspire future research in the field. It is an essential resource for academic researchers and students of second language acquisition, applied linguistics and phonetics and phonology. A state-of-the-art survey of second language speech research, this book presents revision of an influential model in the field, alongside proposed new methods, a progress review and new empirical data. It is an essential resource for academic researchers and students of second language acquisition, applied linguistics, and phonetics and phonology. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781108814614

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Second Language Speech Learning (Paperback)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1108814611
• ISBN-13: 9781108814614
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: new

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Inhaltsangabe

Including contributions from a team of world-renowned international scholars, this volume is a state-of-the-art survey of second language speech research, showcasing new empirical studies alongside critical reviews of existing influential speech learning models. It presents a revised version of Flege's Speech Learning Model (SLM-r) for the first time, an update on a cornerstone of second language research. Chapters are grouped into five thematic areas: theoretical progress, segmental acquisition, acquiring suprasegmental features, accentedness and acoustic features, and cognitive and psychological variables. Every chapter provides new empirical evidence, offering new insights as well as challenges on aspects of the second language speech acquisition process. Comprehensive in its coverage, this book summarises the state of current research in second language phonology, and aims to shape and inspire future research in the field. It is an essential resource for academic researchers and students of second language acquisition, applied linguistics and phonetics and phonology.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ratree Wayland is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Florida. She has published extensively on cross-language perception and production of lexical tones.